The Meeting of the Waters, Killarney

The Meeting of the Waters, Killarney

Bound volume

Lord O. Fitzgerald

Maker
British, 1827–1882

The Meeting of the Waters, Killarney

From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857


April 1854
Albumen silver print
Overall: 19.2 × 24.4 cm (7 9/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Image: 17.2 × 22.9 cm (6 3/4 × 9 in.) (oval)
Purchase
1979.1992.0015
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): The Meeting of the Waters, Killarney. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY LORD OTHO FITZGERALD.

[description of the scene and location with a quote by Sir Walter Scott, followed by an excerpt from Mrs. S.C. Hall's "Scenery of Ireland"]

[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion (wet), April, 1854; weather, bright; Exposure forty- / five seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.

Lens, French; focal length seventeen inches; diameter three and a quarter / inches; Diaphragm three quarters of an inch.

Printed by the ordinary method by Lord Otho Fitzgerlad.
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